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Much of the commentary on the July riots, which cost over 300 lives and billions of rands in damage to the economy, has neglected the long history of violent protests in the country.
Littering in protest is indicative of a discordant society, and a culture of littering can tell us a lot about a society’s ethos.
The risks of big data are not getting enough attention.
Countries - including many in Africa - have moved towards democracy incrementally. They have zig-zagged and sometimes regressed. Events in Zimbabwe should be seen in this light.
Trump’s demagoguery took political discourse in America to a place where it lost contact with reality.
The student protests that rocked South Africa’s universities in 2015 are part of a class struggle as poor and marginalised people fight for their place in an unequal system.
W1A has got funnier but the bad news is that the better W1A gets, the worse the BBC looks.
The Conversation is running a series, Class in Australia, to identify, illuminate and debate its many manifestations. Here, John Smyth identifies the failure of government policies to tackle the nation’s…
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Professorial Fellow, Faculty of Arts and the Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Visiting Professor of Education and Social Justice, University of Huddersfield; and Emeritus Professor, Federation University Australia
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University of York
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Distinguished Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council
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Head of Research, faculty of Education, Cape Peninsula University of Technology
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Professor of Education, University of Washington
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Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; Professor of Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate professor, Information and Media Studies, Western University
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Senior Researcher, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Research Manager, University of the Witwatersrand
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Head of Inclusive Economic Development, Human Sciences Research Council
